This new-last-year team took some people by surprise by actually being good. Almost won their Division.

Theme

The Thurgood fambly enjoys wrasslin’, squattin’, shootin’ skeet, and moonshine aged less than 30 days. Team colors are Red, White and Denim. If you don’t like it you can giiiiit ooouut!

Providence Burnsiders

Team Inception

2007

Other Incarnations

Providence Steamroller (2007)

Overall Performance

50/50. Depends who shows up.

Theme

This Steel-Yard-based 2007 expansion team likes to take obscure historical anecdotes and turn them into a team theme. Last year it was the 1920’s Providence NFL team, the Steamroller. This year it is something about sideburns and President James Buchanan.

Some Blue Blood yacht got trapped in the great white North and ended up in Norway, or Iceland or something, where metal rules. Somehow, they have British accents? Fear the stench of their leather pants and the beefy Security guards.

Urban Plantain Worker’s Party

Team Inception

2008 (NEW !)

Theme

Their manifesto sort of rambles, but we basically get the gist: 60’s era Cuban Socialism. Wethinks this is due to the influence of Cuban Revolution at their digs on Valley Street at the Plant(ain).

Team U.G.G.H.

Team Inception

2003

Other Incarnations

Guerilla Gardeners (2003-07)

Overall Performance

World Champs 2003. Great fun to play. Always laid back, always good. Many Hall of Fame members are Gardeners.

Theme

After so many years as the Guerilla Gardeners, the team changed their name to U.G.G.H. (Underground Gods, Goddesses and Heros). The result is a much more costmed team than previous years.

Untested in a full season, but if the first game is any indication, they are out for dominance.

Theme

Keep your damn Freedom Fries and Toast. We didn’t invent them anyway! But we did invent kickball, something you Americans know nothing about, and with the revived corpse of Napolean, we will make sure that you respect the French! Oh, and thanks for Normandy

And for anyone who cares...

Here are some team lineages... The PKL has a great history of teams that keep coming back for more, and many teams have also come and gone. The horizontal line denotes a lineage. Italics denote a shaky lineage, in that membership and leadership may have changed dramatically except for a few key players.

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

Rockballs

Unaballers

Body Snatchers

Trauma Center

ASF Jr. KS

Kings of Kickball

St. Sebastian

Above teams were organized by Jason Pontius

Hellrazors

Hellrazors II

Hellrazors III

Organized by Carrie Cannon

Juggernauts*

Corleone Sparrows

Big Hurt

Freedom Hurt

Organized by Jed Arkley

Foghorn Unicorn

0.5

(all half Asians)

AS220 Badgers

Decatur Defenders

Decatur Decapitators

Bike Panthers

Team Yeti

Guerilla Gardeners

Team U.G.G.H.

John Barleycorns

Cunning, Baffling, Powerful

Kevin

Productivists*

Road Warriors

Real Yankees

Word Nerds

Penetrator

Holy Rollers

Sharks vs. Jets

BSRmadillos

Daggers United

Death Squad

Bat Seals

Green Barbarians

Scurvy Dog

Fabulous Untouchiballs

East Side Blue Bloods

UntouchiballicA

Presto, Bitch!

the Highlanders

Stilettos

Zomboree

Return of the Zomboree

Curse of the Zomboree

Mississippi Shakedown

Providence Steamroller

Providence Burnsiders

Urban Plantains

Ze French Revenge

* Denotes teams banned forever for forfeiting too many games

Teams in History

2002 - Rock Balls: The uniform was a gray t-shirt with “Rock Balls” in blue lettering.

2003 - Uniballers: Orange prison jumpsuits spoofing the unibomber.

2004 - Body Snatchers: The team would dress in the uniform of their opponents, making life difficult for the umps. At the end of their games, they would attack and “body snatch” a member of the opposing team, making them one of their own.

2005 - Trauma Center: Nurse/EMT scrubs for the uniform, with the exception of Kate who was the “Naughty Nurse” and during the first game, gave birth to a kickball. We believe that this incarnation lost the championship game to CBP in their undefeated season.

2006 - Alan Shawn Feinstein Jr. Kickball Scholars: The uniforms were forgotten orphan clothes with an iron on version of the Feinstein billboards. This was an undefeated season with a win over The Untouchiballs in the championship. It was also the last year for the only remaining “Rock Ball” member, Jason Pontius.